Title & Author:

Sovereign words : Indigenous art, curation and criticism / edited by Katya García-Antón ; contributors: Daniel Browning, Kabita Chakma, Megan Cope, Santosh Kumar Das, Hannah Donnelly, Léuli Māzyār Luna'i Eshrāghi, David Garneau, Biung Ismahasan, Kimberley Moulton, Máret Ánne Sara, Venkat Raman Singh Shyam, Irene Snarby, Ánde Somby, Megan Tamati-Quennell, Prashanta Tripura, Sontosh Bikash Tripura.

Publication:

[Oslo] : Office for Contemporary Art Norway ; Amsterdam : Valiz, 2018
©2018

Description:

287 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 276-279) and index.
Sounding the global indigenous. Language, contemporaneity and indigenous art writing. Can I get a witness? Indigenous art criticism / David Garneau ; What does or should 'Indigenous art' mean? / Prashanta Tripura ; History and context of Madhubani (Mithila) art / Santosh Kumar Das -- Sovereign histories of the visual. Jođi lea buoret go oru. Better in motion than at rest. Iver Jåks (1932-2007) / Irene Snarby ; Toi te kupu, toi te mana, toi te whenua. The permanence of language, prestige and land / Megan Tamati-Quennell ; Sovereignty over representation. Indigenous cinema in the Chittagong Hill tracts of Bangladesh / Kabita Chakma -- Statues, maps, stories and laws. Critical perspectives on land rights and use. Hiding in plain sight. Decolonising public memory / Daniel Browning ; Yarabinja Bujarang. Beautiful sea country / Megan Cope ; Indigenous stories, Indigenous to global survival / Maŕet Ánne Sara ; Where the hard meets the soft / Ánde Somby ; Indigenous people's land rights in Bangladesh. An overview of the Chittagong Hill tracts / Sontosh Bikash Tripura -- Sovereign world-building. Acting within and beyond notions of the curatorial. I can still hear them calling. Echoes of my ancestors / Kimberley Moulton ; People call me Venkat / Venkat Raman Singh Shyam ; Ethno-spatiality as sovereignty. Curating performative encounters with Taiwanese indigenous contemporary art / Biung Ismahasan -- Mātau 'o tautuanaga o fa'āliga ata mo o tātou lumana'i. Considering the service of displays for our futures / Léuli Māzyār Luna'i Eshrāghi ; Indigenous futures and sovereign romanticisms. Belonging to a place in time / Hannah Donnelly.

Summary:

Artists and cultural practitioners from Indigenous communities around the world are increasingly in the international spotlight. As museums and curators race to consider the planetary reach of their art collections and exhibitions, this publication draws upon the challenges faced today by cultural workers, Indigenous and non-Indigenous, to engage meaningfully and ethically with the histories, presents and futures of Indigenous cultural practices and world-views. Sixteen Indigenous voices convene to consider some of the most burning questions surrounding this field. How will novel methodologies of word/voice-crafting be constituted to empower the Indigenous discourses of the future? Is it sufficient to expand the Modernist art-historical canon through the politics of inclusion? Is this expansion a new form of colonisation, or does it foster the cosmopolitan thought that Indigenous communities have always inhabited? To whom does the much talked-of 'Indigenous Turn' belong? Does it represent a hegemonic project of introspection and revision in the face of today's ecocidal, genocidal and existential crises?

ISBN:

9789492095626 (paperback)
9492095629 (paperback)

Subject:

Indigenous art.
Curatorship.
Indigenous art Criticism and interpretation.
Art autochtone.
Conservation.
Art autochtone Critique et interprétation.
20.11 art collecting.
Waka toi.
Iwi taketake.

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Added entries:

García-Antón, Katya, editor.
Browning, Daniel, contributor.
Cākamā, Kabitā, 1964- contributor.
Cope, Megan, contributor.
Das, Santosh Kumar, contributor.
Donnelly, Hannah, contributor.
Māzyār Luna'i Eshrāghi, Léuli, contributor.
Garneau, David, 1962- contributor.
Ismahasan, Biung, contributor.
Moulton, Kimberly, contributor.
Sara, Máret Ánne, 1983- contributor.
Shyam, Venkat Raman Singh, contributor.
Snarby, Irene, contributor.
Somby, Ánde, contributor.
Tamati-Guennell, Megan, contributor.
Tripurā, Praśānta, contributor.
Tripura, Sontosh Bikash, contributor.
García-Antón, Katya editor.

Indigenous art, curation and criticism

Holdings:

Location: Library main 316878
Call No.: 316878
Status: Available